Re: Large *.pif base64 attachments and Gnus...

[Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík)]

   From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
   Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 01:36:48 +0200

Hi,

   > >   > It is a bug in 'base64-decode-region'.  Perhaps it's fixed in Emacs
   > >   > 21, I don't know.  The base64 encoding is indeed incorrect, and that's
   > > 
   > > huh, I use 21 :-( So I will report this bug to appropriate mailing
   > > list. Thank you.
   > 
   > No, there's nothing wrong with `base64-decode-region', Gnus simply
   > catches the error and message it.  Does the following help?
   > 
   > Btw, the error with the b64 encoding is that it ends with "===", which
   > is invalid. Maybe the b64 parser should be made able to cope with that
   > simple error.
   > 
   > Index: mm-decode.el
   > ===================================================================
   > RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/mm-decode.el,v
   > retrieving revision 6.48
   > diff -u -u -w -u -w -r6.48 mm-decode.el
   > --- mm-decode.el	2001/08/04 00:33:18	6.48
   > +++ mm-decode.el	2001/08/04 23:31:56

yes, this will signal an appropriate error to the user.
-- 
Pavel Janík

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